{"id":144,"date":"2004-12-07T18:54:49","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T18:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/2004\/12\/07\/link-ben-grimm-and-religion\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T18:54:49","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T18:54:49","slug":"link-ben-grimm-and-religion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/archives\/144","title":{"rendered":"&#8211;Link&#8211; Ben Grimm and Religion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/progressiveruin.com\/archives\/2004_12_05_archive.html#110244436911587651\">Mike Sterling<\/a> points to an old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bluecorncomics.com\/thingjew.htm\">article<\/a> about the story that revealed Ben Grimm is Jewish (one of my favourite modern FF stories), and other matters of religion in comics, including an odd comment by the Watcher in FF#72. A couple of errors in the article, including the year of Kirby&#8217;s death.  And for those interested, the drawing of Ben with a yarmulke is printed in <a href=\"http:\/\/twomorrows.com\/books\/checklist.html\">The Jack Kirby Checklist<\/a>). I just wanted to take the oppurtunity to post my favourite statement about Ben&#8217;s religion.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ben's Religion\" id=\"image715\" src=\"\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2006\/03\/obdurate.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike Sterling points to an old article about the story that revealed Ben Grimm is Jewish (one of my favourite modern FF stories), and other matters of religion in comics, including an odd comment by the Watcher in FF#72. A couple of errors in the article, including the year of Kirby&#8217;s death. And for those [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kirbymuseum.org\/blogs\/kirby\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}